Across
- 1. gloomy
- 5. indirect or slanting
- 7. cheerfully confident
- 9. to acquire
- 10. inevitable
- 12. showy
- 14. sluggish
- 16. a quick clever reply
- 17. imperious
- 20. friendly
- 21. eagerness
- 23. to pester
- 24. unspoken
Down
- 2. charitable
- 3. to appease
- 4. full of life
- 6. lazy
- 8. generous
- 11. abundant
- 13. mournful
- 15. lying flat
- 18. thoughtful
- 19. ridicule
- 21. able to be heard
- 22. profoundly humiliate